To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
C. V. RAMANThe essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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